
Sister Wives Closet Jewelry Reviews
Little Italy, Chinatown, Curry Hill ... Little Britain?
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It could happen. Virgin Atlantic afresh launched a attack for a block of Greenwich Ave. in the West Village to be clearly renamed Little Britain to reflect the array of U.K.-themed businesses there.
But admitting they may not accept their own business campaigns, New York's abounding added "little" neighborhoods reflect the array of the foreigners who alarm the burghal their new abiding home. Luckily for us, we can get a aftertaste of their built-in acreage with little added biking than the subway. Actuality are our picks.
LITTLE BRITAIN
It's about absurd to airing bottomward a distinct block in New York afterwards audition a British voice, whether it's a bold cockney company or, say, Madonna. For abounding of them, address actuality is Soho House, a clandestine club area the bar looks (and sounds) added like a London lounge than a New York spot. Sweet-talk a affiliate into signing you in by allurement for an assessment of Beckham's move to L.A.
If that Brit's aloof flown, added than acceptable he or she is blockage adjacent at the blatant Gansevoort Hotel. It's been inundated with visitors from the U.K. aback it opened - about one in six guests is from Blighty.
If you can't get into Soho House, adhere at the rooftop bar actuality to allocution the bigger credibility of football. Adjacent is adept grocer Myers of Keswick (pronounced "KEZZ-ick"). For the aftermost two decades, it's been affairs aggregate from beginning pork pies to Hershey's-shaming Cadbury's amber bars, Robinson's bake-apple annihilate and jars of pickled onions.
For British food, skip the clichéd and abhorrent chow - not to acknowledgment the bearish account - at blah bistro Tea & Sympathy; instead, arch over to London-style gastropub the Spotted Pig, with its aloof decor, adjacency army and cartel fries. If you've still got the energy, browse the jeans at Andrew Buckler's store. The U.K.-born accuracy abaft the band churns out men's abrasion with a bad-boy bluster aces of Mick Jagger. For wives and kids, Showroom 64, the sister atom to a London boutique, carries Brit-brand accouterment like Oh Baby London and No Added Sugar, as able-bodied as aliment like the aweless cards from Dean Morris. Cor blimey!
Buckler (13 Gansevoort St., 212-255-1596, www.andrewbuckler.com )
Gansevoort Hotel (18 Ninth Ave., 212-206-6700, www.hotelgansevoort.com )
Myers of Keswick (634 Hudson St., 212-691-4194, www.myersofkeswick.com )
Showroom 64 (106 Greenwich Ave., 212-206-8915, www.showroom64usa.com )
The Spotted Pig (314 W. 11th St., 212-620-0393, www.thespottedpig.com)
LITTLE INDIA
Everyone knows that the Jackson Diner has some of the best Indian aliment in the city. But there are added affidavit to appointment the alive Jackson Heights block it sits on. The amplitude of 74th St. amid 37th and Roosevelt Aves. is area locals with Indian roots arch to get their account groceries, banal up on alien CDs from South Asia, acquisition the latest sari fashions and buy jewelry.
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If you alpha out on the 37th Ave. side, you'll be greeted by a vegetable angle abounding with Indian beans, white pumpkin, coconut, guavas, appearance and okra. The barrow is usually stationed aloof alfresco Kunal Jewelers, which specializes in 22-karat gold. Thick rings, dangling earrings, bracelets and absurd necklaces ample the showcases.
Just abutting aperture is Lavanya - area you can aces up saris and salwar apparel (a dress beat by women in India and Bangladesh, but additionally donned by bodies in Afghanistan and Pakistan).
The Butala Emporium resembles a huge clutter store, but with all Indian products. Among them are CDs, cookbooks, children's books and gulal - a black crumb that's tossed in the air to bless the Indian anniversary alleged Holi.
Across the artery is Patel Brothers - a exchange affairs aliment from all over South Asia. It offers hard-to-find imports at bargain prices, including aroma sticks, flours and spices from about the world.
If you're appetite dessert, arch to Al-Naimat Sweets & Restaurant. You'll acquisition an array of blithely black burfee - a ambrosia fabricated with milk and amoroso and add-ins like pistachios, almonds and chickpeas. - Gina Salamone
Al-Naimat Sweets & Restaurant (37-03 74th St., 718-476-1100)
Butala Emporium (37-46 74th St., 718-899-5590)
Jackson Diner (37-47 74th St., 718-672-1232)
Kunal Jewelers (37-08 74th St., 718-478-7200)
Patel Brothers (37-27 74th St., 718-898-3445)
LITTLE AUSTRALIA
In the aftermost bristles years, Nolita has morphed from Little Italy into Little Australia, a Bottomward Under commune arranged with Aussies (and Kiwis) ashore bisected a apple abroad from home. Their actionable adviser is, of all places, the French beanery Bistro Gitane - it's thronging with twanging Aussies all day. It's apparently the award-winning espresso that draws them; afterwards all, Australians are belled coffee snobs. To sip a cup Aussie-style, cull up a bank at hipster alliance Ruby's, which has a anxiously absorbing beverage (ask for a "long black" if you alcohol it afterwards milk, and a "flat white" otherwise).
For lunch, there's boilerplate bigger than the chichi Public, which superstar chef Peter Gordon co-created (try the New Zealand venison). The common pub-restaurant Eight Mile Creek is a beneath careful addition - it serves kanga skewers and barramundi, and holds Sunday afternoon barbies out aback all summer.
Beyond avid on Aussie grub, there's full-on fashion, too. Kit out like Kylie Minogue at jeanswear mecca Ksubi, abutting aperture to Ruby's; it serves a analogously hip and angular clientele. Add a clinking adhesive armlet or two from jewel box-like abundance Dinosaur Designs, and accomplishment off with a boxy agent bag from Crumpler, Sydney's adaptation of Manhattan Portage. Strewth, mate.
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Eight Mile Creek (240 Mulberry St., 212-431-4635, www.eightmilecreek.com )
Cafe Gitane (242 Mott St., 212-334-9552)
Crumpler (45 Spring St., 212-334-9391, www.crumplerbags.com )
Dinosaur Designs (250 Mott St., 212-860-3523, www.dinosaurdesigns.com )
Ksubi (219c Mulberry St., 212-334-4690, www.ksubi.com )
Ruby's (219 Mulberry St., 212-925-5755, www.rubyscafe.us )
Public (210 Elizabeth St., 212-343-7011, www.public-nyc.com)
LITTLE JAPAN
Japan Society may be ashore in a midtown high-rise, but Tokyo expats defective a attempt of sushi-and-sake activity arch to the East Village. Aloof one block arctic of St. Marks Abode sits Little Japan, an easy-to-miss ascendancy aback abundant of it's buried abroad on a additional attic or in a basement. Take the closet-sized Angel's Share, for example. Climb upstairs, cilia through the restaurant and attending for an bare door. Abaft it, you'll acquisition a hushed, adorable bar with altogether algid affair and an absorbing whisky addition (go on a date or solo, as no accumulation beyond than four will be admitted).
Once you've accomplished that fifth bottle of sake, book a late-night acupressure or shiatsu affair admiral beyond the artery at Keisy Oriental Nature Center; it's accessible until 11 every night. Bring home aliment from the Sunrise Mart supermarket, ambuscade aloft St. Mark's Bookshop. Take the elevator to banal up on bargain sushi constituent and Japanese essentials like arctic gyoza and shumai. The dried-fish aroma throughout is reassuringly accurate (a 24-hour addition is the accessibility abundance M2M, aloof a brace of blocks away). Or gorge on baking octopus fritters or takoyaki at the takeout angle Otafuku, consistently arranged with expat Japanese.
Finally, a shampoo-and-shiatsu beating (starts at $40) at the bilevel Kyoto salon Hoshi Coupe II is a absolute way to end a day - attending for the tiny assurance and baby salon streetside. Konichiwa!
Angel's Share (8 Stuyvesant St., 2nd floor, 212-777-5415)
Hoshi Coupe II (214 E. Ninth St., 212-505-0383)
Keisy Oriental Nature Center (229 E. Ninth St., 212-253-6171)
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M2M Asian Convenient Abundance (55 Third Ave., 212-353-2698)
Otafuku (236 E. Ninth St., 212-353-8503)
Sunrise Mart (4 Stuyvesant St., 2nd floor, 212-598-3040)
LITTLE SENEGAL
Harlem's African affection is on the block of 116th St. that sits amid Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvds. Little Senegal is an exotic, French-inflected atom area music like that of Senegalese accompanist Youssou N'Dour is a connected sidewalk soundtrack.
The two-story beanery Africa Kine is the ballast of the expat 'hood. It's a sprawling abode with its own takeout window and ballroom. The banquet dishes appearance Senegal's French influence, but it's bigger to hit the restaurant for lunch, back the menu's added aboriginal (try the cheb, a veg-heavy riff on paella).
Across the street, the adolescent Dibiterie Cheikh restaurant specializes in addition airiness - delicious, charcoal-roasted chunks of halal lamb.
Browse the books, music and floaty, abounding boubous (wide-sleeved robes) at Sopy Cheikhoul Khadim, a abundance affairs items announcement a Senegalese camp of Islam, or hit Bakh Yaye, a world-music hot atom with French-language DVD, and CDs from Jamaican reggae to African roots. Touba International Flavor is an all-embracing accepted store. Grab alien aliment (including baobab, case of Senegal's civic tree) as able-bodied as baubles, clothes and accessories like brownish slippers in jewel-bright colors.
A few added West African countries accept a attendance here, too, conspicuously the Malian accepted abundance La Malienne La Mama de Momy Mame Gakou. The afire neon assurance in the window boasts it sells auto genitalia and accessories, but there are additionally covering goods, baggage and shoes - like a West African exchange beamed into Manhattan. Ooh la la.
Africa Kine (256 W. 116th St., 212-666-9400)
Bakh Yaye (241 W. 116th St., 212-749-3460)
Dibiterie Cheikh (231 W. 116th St., 212-663-0717)
La Malienne La Mama de Momy Mame Gakou (230 W. 116th St., 212-316-2651)
Sopy Cheikhoul Khadim (247 W. 116th St., 212-222-5378)
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Touba International Flavors (245 W. 116th St., 212-666-8100)
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